Minutes of Atlantic UBL TC call 8 October 2014 14:00UTC

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

MINUTES OF ATLANTIC UBL TC TELECONFERENCE WEDNESDAY 8 October 2014 14:00UTC

ATTENDANCE

Atlantic teleconference:

  Oriol Bausa
  Kenneth Bengtsson
  Peter Borresen
  Kees Duvekot
  Martin Forsberg
  G. Ken Holman (convener)
  Ole Madsen
  Andy Schoka

Pacific teleconference attendance:

  No meeting held this week


STANDING ITEMS

  Additions to events calendar: http://ubl.xml.org/events
    - no events to add at this time

  Review of Pacific call minutes
    https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201410/msg00001.html

  Review of Atlantic call minutes
    https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201410/msg00000.html

  Membership status review
    https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#membership
    https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/membership.php?wg_abbrev=ubl
    https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/members/roster.php?num_items=80

    - voting status is determined by the following:
      - existing voting members must not miss two consecutive meetings to
        maintain voting status
      - non-voting members must attend two consecutive meetings to obtain
        voting status
    - committee officers (alphabetical):
      - Jon Bosak (secretary)
      - G. Ken Holman (co-chair)
      - Tim McGrath (co-chair)
    - current voting member list (alphabetical):
      - Oriol Bausa
      - Kenneth Bengtsson
      - Peter Borresen
      - Kees Duvekot
      - Martin Forsberg
      - G. Ken Holman
      - Ole Madsen
      - Andy Schoka
    - what can we do to recruit more volunteers to the TC to share
      in the work?

  JIRA tickets
   https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10170
   - PEPPOL documentation makes reference to despatch advice and the parties
     involved and there is an opportunity to fill in a document type that
     appears not to be fulfilled; this is directly related to the ticket:
     - https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL-1
     - CEN/BII BIS 30A Despatch Advice - paragraph 5.3
     - https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/peppol/PostAward/DespatchAdvice30A/
     - to be discussed over the TC email list during the week ahead

  Web site maintenance (committee web site or UBL.xml.org)
   - any action needed?
   - the question arose regarding how to get email notifications of postings
     made to UBL.xml.org
     - Tim to find ways for UBL.xml.org to feed social media


ISO/IEC DIS 19845 Universal Business Language Version 2.1 (UBL v2.1)

 - as of the posting of this agenda the stage remains at 40.60

http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=66370


Human Interface Subcommittee (HISC) revival

 - work proceeding on Invoice, Order and Forwarding Instructions
 - Peter has progressed the work to create a stylesheet generator
   - invoice is complete
   - order is almost comlete
   - forwarding instructions will be started soon
 - will work on procedures to accommodate submissions from others
   while keeping in mind intellectual property issues


UBL TC Face-to-face

 - confirmed for December 1, 2014 - Stockholm, Sweden
 - who is planning to attend?
   - please send offline to the chairs a written indication of your
     intention to attend (not a commitment, just an intention for our
     planning purposes)
 - what agenda items do we need?
   - work on some of the JIRA tickets
   - reports from each of the subcommittees (e.g. HISC)
   - how should we tie procurement and transportation to form a logic
     link all the way from "I want something" to it being delivered
     (bring together the two islands of procurement and transport)
   - new Publications Office forms
   - should we have a multitude of smaller documents for process
     purposes, rather than larger documents? Note this is also a topic
     later in the week at the CEN/BII meeting


UBL International 2014

 - a half-day symposium in Stockholm, December 2, 2014 the day after
   the UBL TC face-to-face is ready to be announced:

     http://www.UBLconference.com

 - at this time attendance is limited to 50, but free because of sponsorships
   - few registrations have arrived at this point
 - please invite organizations to become one of the limited number of sponsors
 - please help spread the word
 - any ideas for a UBL International symposium in 2015?

     http://www.UBLconference.com/hosting

 - the afternoon seminar by CEN WS/BII3 is announced here:

     http://www.cenbii.eu/cen-wsbii3-seminar-stockholm-2nd-december-2014/


UBL TC next steps

  - what promotional issues need to be addressed?
  - UBL 2 is an organic thing that can be grown

  - what do we do for implementation support?
  - should we write a companion document of how to use the specification?
  - industry-specific documentation?
  - make it easier to find what is relevant without changing the actual
    specification

  - how about a Twitter feed of UBL adoption and announcements?

  - what subject matter issues need to be addressed?
    - more transportation co-ordination issues
    - communications with transportation regulatory organizations
    - DBE-Core Information Set requirements?

  - what technical issues need to be addressed?
    - are any schema changes needed?
    - suggestion for new requirements for existing documents:
      - customs document alignment
      - tendering document alignment


TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

 Next meetings:

   2014-10-15 Pacific 00:00UTC/20:00EDT, Atlantic 14:00UTC/16:00CEST/10:00EDT
   2014-10-22 Pacific 00:00UTC/20:00EDT, Atlantic 14:00UTC/16:00CEST/10:00EDT
   2014-10-29 Pacific 00:00UTC/20:00EDT, Atlantic 15:00UTC/16:00CEST/11:00EDT
   2014-11-05 Pacific 01:00UTC/20:00EDT, Atlantic 15:00UTC/16:00CEST/10:00EDT

 Will anyone be requesting a leave of absence in the near future?  For
 privacy reasons, this discussion will be kept off of the minutes.

 TC calendar:
 http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/calendar.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

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OTHER BUSINESS

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